Draft Genome Sequences of Nine Japanese Strains of the Kiwifruit Bacterial Canker Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae Biovar 3.

Takashi Fujikawa,Hiroyuki Sawada,David A Baltrus

doi:10.1128/mra.01007-20

Abstract

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae is the pathogen that causes kiwifruit bacterial canker and is categorized into several groups (biovars). In Japan, biovar 3, known as the pandemic group, was first discovered in 2014. Here, we sequenced the genomes of nine Japanese biovar 3 strains.

Highlights

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae is the pathogen that causes kiwifruit bacterial canker and is categorized into several groups
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We selected nine Japanese strains of biovar 3 (Table 1) from the NARO Genebank collection and sequenced their genomes to further advance our understanding of biovar 3 genomics

Summary

Introduction

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae is the pathogen that causes kiwifruit bacterial canker and is categorized into several groups (biovars). Actinidiae, causes serious damage to kiwifruit production worldwide [1], and is currently subdivided into several groups (biovars) [2, 3]. In Japan, biovar 3 strains were first discovered in 2014 [6] and have caused enormous damage since [3]. Because biovar 3 strains were not detected at all in Japan until 2014 [3, 6] and it had been clarified that the pandemic lineage of biovar 3 originated in China [4, 5], it is speculated that biovar 3 might have invaded Japan from any country where it previously occurred

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